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Goodmorning All,what an awfull experience for our June,hope she will be bak soon,GR permitting, June if you can read this ,give yourself a hug from me.I tried to send the photos to you yester day but they would not accept ,said something about your mailbox? Kathleen hope susan continues to improve Chris,you poor thing that must have been a nightmare for you, I am working a late today but have loads to do before I go out,as I am delivering some presents afterwards. There was snow here yesterday but it has not stuck in the city. Take care ,Brenda

hi All Just read through the messages, on Gaynor's update for June she says she can read the messages so hurry back soon June. if you had a message about June's mailbox Brenda it could be that there are too many messages saved on there June which require deleting. Went shopping in town yesterday morning, it was a bit manic because of course the children are not at school, so didn't stay in there too long, didn't have much to get thank goodnes as the queues in the shops were horrendous. crowded on the bus too. today we walked round for the papers then took ourselves to the golf club for lunch. We normally eat in the evenings but have our neihbours coming in tonight for a drink and chat at 6.30 so decided we would be better off eating lunch time. We both had omelettes and chips and really enjoyed them, mine was cheese and tomato and Tony's was ham and onion. We have recieved most of the expected cards now, about 70 so the lounge is looking very festive. I had an e mail from our DiL this morning, apparently 8 year old Grandson is 'hyper' and OTT with everything and has been threatened that father christmas wont come if he doesn't calm down and 2 year old grandaughter loves the tree. And they are looking forward to seeing us on Thursday. daughter e mailed me to say she had to take her 17 year old cat Timmy to the vet on what turned out to be a one way trip this morning, he has been going down hill and didn't look at all well over the weekend when we saw him. Apparently he had complete kidney failure. i was pleased I had seen him and given him a cuddle at the weekend. Tomorrow i shall be packing and getting everything together for the trip to M keynes so not sure if I will get on here, although i might have time to read if not post. As the children don't like loud noises I haven't bought crackers but have made a snowman to put on the table, he contains a small present for everyone. I have actually been working on my genealogy, I have got around to typing up my Grandfather's history, i like to put it all into a narrative, besides giving a good picture of the person it also highlights anything I may have missed as I have to read all documents and censuses etc thoroughly to weed out information. anyway, in case i don't get on here tomorrow I hope that you all have a wonderful Christmas. I haven't mentioned everyone personally but Kathleen, you and your daughter are still in my thoughts as is Fred, don't overdo things will you fred, let the others help you. Take care everyone Love Ann Glos

Hi all, As previously said I went out with Johan this morning to get our air bed pumped up, but the air at the pump was frozen. Just our luck. We decided to go into the Camping Shop to find a better pump. We bought a pump before but it is useless. Anyway we now have an electric pump, which works, albeit slow. Did some shopping. Came home, lovely warm house. Made some more bread and hung up some more washing - another 4 shirts of Johans. I think another man is putting shirts in my washbasket! My genealogy magazine arrived today, so am just dying to read it. When I've finished here I'll go and read it. No messages from Fred or Di, June, Jude. What have we done to you all - HELP, come back. Love, Sylvia xxx

Ohhh Sylvia can't leave you all on your own:o)) l have been looking in, made a few replies to other threads then dash downstairs again before hubby realises l've even moved!!!! lol Ann - thank you for the email. Hope your evening is a good one. My sister and her hubby were here on Saturday for a chrissie meal and just before they arrived a relative from New York rang,(l knew she was going to-l kept it as surprise for my sister) one of the Meninsky's - her mother is a Meninsky by birth not marriage and a cousin is a Pace!!! l have just emailed Lynda Pace incase we are related!!! l think l have mentioned that l email relatives in NY, l've been in contact with this one for about a yr now, the other one has'nt got my new email addy!! he had so much info l could'nt keep up with him, but will contact him again in New Yr! The other thing that happened before my sister arrived was the bloomin chicken was OFF, this is the 3rd time this year. l had made up my mind not to buy any from this store again,but had no choice the other day. l checked it everyday(bought it Thursday,sell by date 22/12/04), fine, then at 4pm l took it out of the fridge and low and behold - phewwwww - as you can imagine l was not too happy so rang the store and asked them to bring another one out to me, well blimey l was about to put it in the oven!!!! Anyway the manager arrived with 2 rolled chicken breasts, as that was all they had, when cooked they were both smaller than the chicken and twice as expensive - very nice though. She next time l'm in the store to ask for her and she will give me a bouquet of flowers! Well hope everyone is well,its really chilly here especially in this storeroom - corrrr blimey!!! l have left the iron so ought to do something with it. Kathleen l do hope your daughter is ok - take care. Hope everyone else is ok : Gaynor,Fred,Ann,Anne, Sylvia,Di,June,Brenda,George,Christine.Mary,Lou,Elisabeth, Crista and anyone else l may have forgotten:o) Nite nite Jude sarf wales

Just aquickie as I am replying to a load of emails recieved tonight. Bill many thanks for your lovelly greeting. Ann,thanks for the message about the mailbox.I spoke with someone else earlier,who said the same thing as she has had problems sending to June as well. Sylvia,hope you sort out your phantom shirt user,someone in this house seems to need three bath towels per bath/shower. I seem to be washing all my towels every day. Jude bet your sister was delighted with the news from the states ,what a nice surprise. To evryone else,thinking about you all and hoping to see your very welcome messages soon,Take care Brenda

Just popping in briefly to say hello to everyone. Took Susan to the hospital at midday to get the first dressing removed. Everything is healing nicely just a little blistering because of the sticky stuff holding the dressing. Back on 31st to get the final dressing removed and to get the test results. Fingers crossed she will not need more surgery and that the cancer hasn't spread any further. Did a bit of shopping for her, she has to be careful in crowds because of getting knocked. I did a bit last night, found I had run out of tea at midnight so scraped the frost off the car and tootled off to Tesco. My car doesn't like frost - it screams (think it's the gas pedal), very embarrassing!! No more time now, in case I don't get back until after Christmas Very Happy Christmas to you all, thank you so much for your support and will catch up in the New Year. On the other hand I might be able to sneak on here at some point when nobody is looking!! By the way Brenda, my family never use just one towel when three will do - I spend so much time washing towels. Love to you all God bless Kathleen

Poor Jude, you are not very lucky with chickens are you? We are not lucky with foot pumps, or electric pumps for that matter. My husband has spent most of the day trying to pump up an air bed for our son when he comes Xmas Eve. He took the electric pump back to the camping shop today. This is the second pump we've wasted our money on! He will try again tomorrow. Kathleen, glad to hear your daughter is doing ok. I loved the Xmas message from Bill in Oz. I wonder how long it took him to type it! Today I changed the beds and washed and ironed duvet covers etc. I cannot believe it, but I ironed another 4 of my husband's shirts! Only two of my blouses. I did one or two small jobs, but for the rest took it easy. Tomorrow I'll do my last shopping, not very much just some milk and cream and parsley and sellery. The rest I have already done. I was feeling a little sad today and did what I seldom do, had a little cry. I think I'm beginning to realise that I'll not have all the family here on Xmas Day, and then felt sorry for my husband trying to pump up the air bed. Didn't let him see that I was a bit weepy though!. See you tomorrow. Love, Sylvia xxx

Hi everyone, We've still got rain here. Hoping it is sort itself out and the sun will be shining for Xmas Day. My son wants to give the girls their present today - a playstation singstar party game with 2 microphones and loads of songs - bit like kareoke (don't know how to spell it). He's going away for 3 months on Boxing Day so wants to enjoy the fun of seeing them use it now - so it looks like a full day of singing here today. Merry Xmas, Christine

Hi everyone I'm back, feeling very embarrassed, just because I wanted hearts around my name. You wouldn't think that such a little thing could create so much havoc. Merry Christmas everyone! Chris, sounds like you are going to have plenty of fun there, its also raining here too. Veronica, you must come and visit os again, there is usually something going on all the time here. Kathleen, I'm so happy to hear that Susan is doing well. You take care too, no more of this rushing to Tesco at midnight!! Sylvia, you are well organised as usual. just sip that sherry slowly,lol Di, Glad you had a good day out with your daughter, its nice to see you again. Brenda, Sorry the photos didn't get through, my email box isn't full, although I have tidied it a little, I can only think that the same thing that was affecting my updating messages has affected it. Please try again. Bill I wish I had your patience to draw like that, I hope you have a lovely Christmas. Jude, sorry to hear you had a nasty chicken, the mind boggles at what we have passed on to us. I hope Madoc is looking forward to Christmas too I have to rush now, hope I haven't missed anyone, see you tomorrow Love June xx

Hi Everyone,just another quickie while my son is out for the evening(its his turn tonight).Glad everyone is in good spirits,ready for Christmas, See you all tomorrow.love Brenda ps take care.

Its Mwah again - ello everyone:o))) its getting exciting now!!l've been naughty and bought more pressies for the kids - (you have to remember the kids are 27yrs and 29yrs). In Monmouth there is a shop called "Salt & Pepper" which sells kitchen fingy's, really tasty things in there, next door is their's also,they sell Jelly teddies and dolls,gorgeous christmas decs, hand bags,glass ware, posh silk scarves etc etc and all quite pricie - they have one offs, you don't see them in other shops, at least l don't, well they had these lovely pencil cases and l bought three, just lickle tree pressies, novelty fingies!!!hubby will not be amused when he finds out,which will be christmas day when everyone opens them!!!! lol My daughter moved into her new flat today, she and her partner are so excited. We will see them both on Fri - yippeeee:o)) Sylvia - what a pair we are, you with your pumps and me with me chicken. l should have waited till the next day and gone to the butchers,never mind - l won't be buying chickens from them until they change their suppliers. l see on another thread that you have been at you bottle of sherry again!!! lol l'm off now for a while cause its the final of "celebrity come dancing" l'm hoping Bruce has forgotten and got lost in the canteen!!!! Be back later:o)0 Jude sarf wales

l'm back:o)) Hello Elisabeth, really good to see you - hope the polka dots wash out ok!!! l have been thinking of you as many have on here, we've all been asking after you - take care and we look forward to your chat next year:o)))) Bill - wow,that must have taken ages.Merry Christmas to you too:o)) Di - nice to see you, do have a lovely christmas and take it easy.Its nice meeting up with daughters is'nt it:o)) June - Oh Madoc will be fine, l have bought 2 treats today, chewy fings and will try and find another fluffy fingy tomorrow. My sister says l spoil him - Nooooooooooooo - who me??? Nearly forgot - welcome back,bet that was hard watching all the messages and not being able to respond!!??Good old She for helping with the Birthdays thread:o) Christine - sounds (he he) like you are all going to have fun:o)) Veronica - hello and wellcome to the mad house, although its looks like you have the right sense of humour :o) Ok thats it, will try and get back on here, mind you l said that the other, l will go l promise. A VERY HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL:o)) Jude sarf wales xx

Hi everyone, Its a nasty wet and windy day here, I'm just having my coffee, entering the Birthday messages and wondering which job should be done first, you know the boring ones, like hoovering, dusting etc. must have everywhere nice and clean for Christmas. I'll leave you while I go and have some toast and I will pop back later. Merry Christmas everyone (I love saying that) Love June xx

Me again. I had a job to find this thread as so many other threads were in front of it. Well finally the air bed has been pumped up. I think the other air bed had a leak in it. So probably not the pump at all! I went upstairs to see another neighbour this afternoon as she has pneumonia. She was going away tomorrow but has had to cancel her trip. She was walking round the flat in bare feet. She always does this she says, but I said not everybody has pneumonia. Anyway I asked if I could do anything to help, but her husband had done all the shopping and her husband can cook, so they'll be ok. I did my last shopping today, only needed milk and cream and a few fresh herbs, but it was nice to get out. There was a very strong wind blowing, but at least it was dry. Linda came today and vacuumed the flat and did the toilet and bathroom. She sent me an e-mail Xmas card, using my computer! I made some cheese and tomato bread and a 9-cereal brown loaf. If I get time tomorrow I'll make some more mince pies, but otherwise we'll make do with those I've already frozen in. My ex son in law and his new wife came this evening and brought me a lovely tub of narcis bulbs. Johan had a bottle of whisky. Don't know whether I'll have time to write tomorrow, maybe, otherwise have a good Xmas. Sylvia xxx

Hi Sylvia,june,Jude,and everyone else,really great to see you Elizabeth,just leave amessage when ever you can we don't stand on ceremony on here. In case I don't get on here tomorrow or Christmas Day thank you all so much for your contributions to the thread and helping to make it such a good (and peacefull)one. Hope you all have a Very Merry Christmas. lots of love,Brenda ps Don't forget ,Take Care,!!!

*************************************************** WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS,WE WISH YOU MERRY CHRISTMAS, WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A *****************HAPPY NEW YEAR****************** HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE - see you all soon:~) Yes Brenda this is such a lovely thread, thank you for starting it. Take care everyone. Love from Jude & Vic xxxxxxxx Hey my sister had a fabulous letter from my brother in USA, we have'nt seen him since he was 17yrs, he's now 44!!!

Just had some time over before my son arrives! I baked bread today again and mince pies, cheese biscuits and a huge pan of fresh asparagus soup. I'm not cooking further today. We will have drinks soon and with all the odds and ends and a cup of soup feel we will have enough. Weather has been cold, windy, but sunny. Will keep this short, probably won't have time tomorrow. Love, Sylvia xxx

Happy Christmas everyone, I'm sorry I didn't get back later yesterday, the time just flew by. This morning we went out for the fresh veg and bits that we had forgotten. Then Nick arrived home, he went out with some schoolfriends last night and ended up staying with one that has his own house. since then I have had a friend round and phone calls. Anyway I am now going to give Beckham a shower then I will have one too, so I may not not be on tomorrow but if I get chance I will look in because I know some people are on there own and some whose partners are working will be around too. Enjoy yourselves everyone Love June xx

Morning all, Happy Christmas to everyone. Turkey in the oven, all the vegetables ready in their pans and dishes , sausages to wrap in bacon then its all done. A breakfast of soft boiled eggs and croissants being eaten now and pressies to be opened yet. Have a peaceful and happy day. Love Elisabeth xx

Merry Christmas everyone! Great to see you again Elisabeth. Just got the last few presents to wrap and then load the coffee table up with chocolates and treats. Spent the day cooking mince pies, roast chestnuts, trifle and a big batch of ham and pea soup. We have rib eye roast tomorrow which will probably be cooked on the bbq rotisserie so that the oven's free for Yorkshire puds and roast potatoes and parsnips. I can feel the pounds going on already! It's crazy weather across the States right now. No snow here but Houston, Texas has some. They haven't seen snowflakes for about 8 years and they've never had snow on Christmas Day before. Have a great day, Crista xxx